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Alessandro Bosetti - Stand Up Comedy (Excerpt)

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From WER-001 Alessandro Bosetti "Stand Up Comedy"

http://weirdearrecords.bandcamp.com/album/stand-up-comedy


On these recordings, Allesandro Bosetti utilizes an instrument of his own design (Mask/Mirror) to skew any intent to specific meaning asunder, as the mask/mirror has been engineered to chaotically interrupt and reconfigure speech in realtime, creating odd juxtapositions, abrupt interruptions, and a wholly arresting listening experience. As Mask/Mirror spits out phrases, isolated words, vocal tics, plosives, and the occasional guffaw, it convolves the starkness of that material in real time with bells, sine waves, percussive elements and other instrumental sound, effectively creating a tonal shadow that further blurs the divide between sound, speech, music and language.

Side A of Stand Up Comedy is comprised of audio extrapolated from a tour of the US east coast in 2008. Portions of Bosetti's performances including audience interactions, interviews, and phoned in conversations with Mask/Mirror, are woven together into a seamless whole, the overall structure mimicking the recursive and mutating phrasings that Mask/Mirror can tend towards. A rich cross section of people interact with and become part of Mask/Mirror, as it saves portions of speech for later use, effectively keeping the listener guessing as to what may 'really' be happening in any of these interactions.

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from Weird Ear Sampler, released February 14, 2014
released 10 December 2012
Stand Up comedy 1 : Alessandro Bosetti - voice/mask mirror

Recorded in Philadelphia (masher dance space), Vienna (Kunstradio), Jersey City (WMFU) and St. Louis (Lemp Arts), 2008.

Stand Up comedy 2 : Alessandro Bosetti - voice/electronics.
Johnny Chang - violin
Chris Heenan - contrabass clarinet

Recorded in Berlin (Hechtzeitmusk Tage), 2009.

Thanks to Kurt Gottschalk, Liza Clark, Mark Sarich, Elisabeth Zimmermann, Byron Westbrook, Fernanda Farah, Chris Heenan, Ignatz Schick.

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